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What do these changes do?

When _request internally retries after a ClientOSError/ServerDisconnectedError, it
rebuilt the payload from the original data. If data was an open file handle, the
aborted write had already advanced it, so the retry resent only the unread remainder
(with a matching, short Content-Length) — the server silently received a truncated
upload.

The retry path now reuses the payload from the failed attempt, exactly as the 307/308
redirect path already does. IOBasePayload._set_or_restore_start_position() seeks the
handle back to the position recorded before the first attempt, so the full body is resent.

AsyncIterablePayload additionally marks itself consumed as soon as it starts draining an
uncached iterator, rather than only on StopAsyncIteration. Previously an interrupted
write left consumed as False while the iterator was partially drained, which made a
half-sent body look replayable to both the retry and the redirect path.

Are there changes in behavior for the user?

Yes, two:

  • A retried request with a file-like body now sends the complete body instead of a
    truncated one.
  • A request whose body cannot be replayed (e.g. a partially consumed async iterable) is no
    longer retried. The original connection error propagates instead of a silently truncated
    body being sent.

Is it a substantial burden for the maintainers to support this?

No. It reuses the payload-replay mechanism the redirect path already relies on, rather
than adding a parallel one.

Related issue number

Fixes #13329

Checklist

  • I think the code is well written
  • Unit tests for the changes exist
  • Documentation reflects the changes — N/A (no user-facing docs cover the internal
    retry path; behaviour change is described in the news fragment)
  • If you provide code modification, please add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS.txt — N/A
    (already a contributor)
  • Add a new news fragment into the CHANGES/ folder
Agent run output

New tests fail on master and pass with the fix:

$ PYTHONPATH='.' AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS=1 pytest tests/test_client_functional.py -k retry_persistent_connection -q
# before the fix
FAILED tests/test_client_functional.py::test_file_upload_retry_persistent_connection
FAILED tests/test_client_functional.py::test_upload_retry_persistent_connection_unseekable_body
2 failed, 315 deselected

# after the fix
2 passed, 315 deselected

Full suite (pure Python):

$ PYTHONPATH='.' AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS=1 pytest tests/ -q --numprocesses=auto
1 failed, 4546 passed, 59 skipped, 14 xfailed in 184.53s

The single failure is tests/test_connector.py::test_tcp_connector_resolve_host, which
fails identically on master in this sandbox (no DNS).

black, isort, flake8 and mypy are clean on the changed files.

Not verified with the C extensions: pip install -e . fails to link in this environment.
The change is confined to client.py/payload.py and touches no parser or websocket code.


Drafted with Claude Code (Opus 5); reviewed by @bdraco.


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The fix looks right. extending it to the case where the request is retried should work. Just didn't plan for that case

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@bdraco: The fix looks right. extending it to the case where the request is retried should work. Just didn't ...

Retry path now mirrors 307/308 path: reuses req._body instead of rebuilding from data. IOBasePayload._set_or_restore_start_position() seeks back to recorded start; size stays full-file, so Content-Length matches. AsyncIterablePayload marks itself consumed at first drain, not only at StopAsyncIteration. Unreplayable bodies raise original connection error rather than retry truncated.

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Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Changes complete. No lint tooling in sandbox; syntax verified.
  • Added tests/test_payload.py::test_async_iterable_payload_consumed_on_interrupted_write — drives write_with_length() against a writer that raises after the first chunk and asserts consumed is True, covering the early _consumed flag that suggestion #1 showed was untested (reverting payload.py alone left CI green).
  • Added MultipartWriter.consumed property (aiohttp/multipart.py) returning True when the writer or any part is consumed, so a multipart/FormData body containing a drained AsyncIterablePayload part now fails fast on both the retry and redirect guards — closes the HIGH silent-truncation bypass (#2). close() still reads _consumed directly, so close-once semantics are unchanged.
  • Added tests/test_multipart.py::test_multipart_writer_consumed_follows_parts covering the new aggregation.
  • Added await req._close() before reusing req._body on the retry path (aiohttp/client.py) so the cancelled writer task is awaited and any in-flight executor read cannot race the rewind seek() (#3).
  • Extended CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst with the multipart replay-guard behaviour.

Not changed (and why)

  • MEDIUM "guard relies on a swallowed error" (_set_or_restore_start_position swallowing a failed seek()): disagree on scope. That swallow predates this PR and is on every IOBasePayload read path (size, as_bytes, decode, plus the redirect replay), not just retry. Turning it into a raise is a

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Changes applied

  • Trimmed the retry-path comment at aiohttp/client.py:740 from 14 lines to 5, keeping only the two non-obvious facts (rebuilt payload resends just the unread remainder; the cancelled writer must finish before the rewind) — per @bdraco and the follow-up.
  • Moved await req._close() above the req._body.consumed guard, so replayability is read after in-flight write state settles — per the HIGH silent-failure finding at client.py:749-756.

Not changed (and why)

  • MEDIUM "incomplete synchronization barrier" (track the payload's executor future): disagree on scope. Real gap, but fixing it means new public quiesce/drain API on IOBasePayload plus per-payload future tracking — a separate change, not this bugfix. Current ordering is strictly better than before.
  • MEDIUM "advisory flag with no enforcement" in payload.py: disagree. Raising inside AsyncIterablePayload.write_with_length on _consumed changes behaviour for existing non-retry writers and risks breaking multipart re-write paths. Out of scope for this fix.

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Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Trimmed retry-path comment in aiohttp/client.py from five lines to three, per @bdraco's "overly verbose prose" request — kept only the two load-bearing facts (rebuilt payload would resend just the unread remainder; rewind happens after the cancelled writer settles) and dropped the prose duplicated in the changelog fragment.

Not changed (and why)

  • Three MEDIUM "Silent Failure Analysis" findings (distinguishable ClientPayloadError on unreplayable body; propagating seek failure out of _set_or_restore_start_position; raising in AsyncIterablePayload.write_with_length when consumed) — automated advisory findings, not maintainer change requests, and each widens scope beyond the stated fix. The latter two alter behaviour of the pre-existing redirect-replay path shared by all callers; that belongs in a separate PR.

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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • BodyPartReaderPayload.write() now sets _consumed = True before draining the reader (aiohttp/multipart.py:664) — per the HIGH finding, a fully drained proxy body previously reported consumed is False, so the retry guard passed and an empty body was resent.
  • Added test_body_part_reader_payload_consumed_after_write and test_multipart_writer_consumed_follows_body_part_reader — the second covers the requested case of a MultipartWriter holding a drained BodyPartReader part rather than only an async generator.
  • Changelog fragment notes the body-part-reader behaviour.

Not changed (and why)

  • @bdraco "Trim the overly verbose prose" (client.py:754) — already applied in commit 737a606. The retry block at HEAD carries 3 comment lines (client.py:740-742), not the 14 the follow-up bot comment describes; that comment is stale.
  • MEDIUM "error state set after the check that reads it" — real, but pre-existing and not introduced here: the 307/308 redirect path (client.py:796) uses the identical consumed-then-write ordering, and IOBasePayload._set_or_restore_start_position() has always swallowed the seek failure. Making it fail-closed means changing IOBasePayload's contract for every write path, which is a separate fix.
  • "Unreplayable-body failure distinguishable from a transient disconnect" — deliberate: the request did fail with a connection error, and re-raising the original preserves the cause and traceback. Substituting a synthetic error would hide the real failure;

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Comment on lines +1 to +11
Fixed internally retried requests sending a truncated body when the request
data was a file object -- by :user:`aiolibsbot`.

The payload of the failed attempt is now reused on retry, so the file handle is
rewound to the position it had before the first attempt instead of resuming from
wherever the aborted write left it. Bodies that cannot be replayed (such as a
partially consumed async iterable) are no longer retried; the original
connection error is raised instead. A streamed body part read from an incoming
multipart request marks itself unreplayable once written, and a multipart body
reports that it cannot be replayed when any of its parts cannot, so neither the
retry nor the redirect path sends it again with a drained part missing.

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trim the overly verbose prose

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Still open. Fragment now 11 lines, up from 8. Repo norm runs 1-4 lines: 12088.bugfix.rst 1 line, 12540.bugfix.rst 1 line, 10611.bugfix.rst 3, 12296.bugfix.rst 4. Keep sentence one plus one behaviour-change line. Drop payload-reuse and multipart mechanism — already in PR body. Flagged blocking this round.

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Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Trimmed CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst from 11 lines to 4 per @bdraco: kept the fix sentence plus the one behaviour-change line, dropped payload-reuse and multipart mechanism detail (already in the PR body).

Not changed (and why)

  • aiohttp/client.py:754 "trim the overly verbose prose" — already trimmed in an earlier pass. Current comment is 3 lines (client.py:740-742) covering exactly the two facts flagged as worth keeping: rebuild resends only the unread remainder, and the cancelled writer must settle before rewind. The follow-up note claiming 14 comment lines was stale.
  • Three MEDIUM automated-review findings (_close() inside except block, consumed-flag doubling as cleanup guard, write_with_length not enforcing _consumed) — advisory, not maintainer change requests, and each widens scope beyond the retry fix.

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PR Review — Rewind file bodies when internally retrying a request

Both outstanding maintainer requests are now addressed and the fix holds up under verification — merge-ready with nits.

The core change is the right shape: reusing the failed attempt's payload instead of rebuilding it from data mirrors what the 307/308 path already does at client.py:796-803, so this adds no parallel mechanism. I re-verified the load-bearing details against the branch — IOBasePayload.size (payload.py:534-559) subtracts _start_position rather than reading from the current offset, so Content-Length stays consistent with the rewound body; PayloadRegistry.get returns an existing Payload unchanged (payload.py:113-115), so passing req._body back as data reuses the instance rather than re-wrapping it; _body defaults to the _EMPTY_BODY singleton (client_reqrep.py:1043), never None, so the new .consumed read cannot AttributeError; and no error path closes the body between the failure and the retry (req._close() only awaits the writer task). Ordering is right too — await req._close() precedes the consumed check, so replayability is read after write state settles.

The two _consumed relocations are sound. AsyncIterablePayload setting the flag before draining leaves the cached-chunks branch untouched (it returns at payload.py:1040 before the flag is set), so as_bytes()-then-write still replays. AsyncIterablePayload._autoclose = True, so the multipart close-guard is unaffected there. Tests are well targeted: both functional tests genuinely fail on master, and the new multipart tests cover the drained-BodyPartReader case rather than only the async-generator case.

  • Resolved since last round: the news fragment is trimmed to 4 lines (in line with recent bugfix fragments on master, which run 1-4), and the client.py comment is down to 3 lines — both maintainer change-requests are now satisfied.
  • await req._close() can re-raise a non-cancelled writer-task exception in place of the retryable error, skipping the retry; reachable in principle via write_eof/expect100, could not reproduce.
  • Re-iterable AsyncIterable bodies (not async generators) retried successfully on master and are now refused — the only case where working behaviour is traded for a refusal; the fragment's "partially consumed" wording understates it.
  • Marking BodyPartReaderPayload consumed at write start also skips it in MultipartWriter.close()'s per-part close loop; harmless today (inherited no-op close()) but a latent trap on a class explicitly marked _autoclose = False.
  • AsyncIterablePayload.write_with_length sets _consumed but never enforces it, so any caller that does not consult .consumed can still emit a short body.
  • The comment claims the payload rewinds "once the cancelled writer has settled", but _close() does not wait for the in-flight executor read; narrow race with the retry's seek (unverified).
  • multipart.py:915 still says "Can be encoded multiple times" — the exact invariant the new property revokes. (A prior round recorded this fixed; it is still present.)
  • The PR description omits the multipart changes entirely, and the trimmed changelog no longer mentions them either.

✅ Resolved since last review (1)

Previously-flagged issues verified fixed
  • CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst:1 Maintainer's request to trim the news fragment is still unaddressed — the fragment grew instead

🟢 Suggestions

1. `await req._close()` can swap the retryable error for the writer task's exception
aiohttp/client.py:743-745

ClientRequest._close() (client_reqrep.py:1525-1533) does await self._writer_task and catches only asyncio.CancelledError. Any other exception the writer task ended with propagates out of this except clause, replacing the ClientOSError/ServerDisconnectedError the caller would otherwise see and skipping the retry entirely.

Because it is raised inside an except handler, the sibling except OSError as exc: below never sees it either, so it is not normalised into ClientOSError — the user gets a raw, unclassified error.

The common path is fine: _connect_and_send_request runs resp.close() on BaseException (client.py:249), which cancels the writer task, and _write_bytes re-raises CancelledError (client_reqrep.py:1507-1510) which _close() swallows. But _write_bytes has two awaits outside its catch-all try:

  • the expect100 preamble (send_headers() / drain() / await self._continue)
  • await writer.write_eof() in the else: branch (client_reqrep.py:1521)

StreamWriter._write raises ClientConnectionResetError when transport.is_closing() — which is exactly the state this retry path exists to handle — so a non-cancelled writer task is reachable in principle.

Unverified: I could not stage a reproduction; it needs the body write to succeed and write_eof to fail on the same transport. Blast radius is limited to requests with a body, since the data is not None guard means bodyless requests never reach _close().

One-line hardening if you want to close it off:

with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
    await req._close()
                            await req._close()
                            if req._body.consumed:
                                raise
2. Marking `BodyPartReaderPayload` consumed also disables its close-time cleanup
aiohttp/multipart.py:666-669

MultipartWriter.close() gates per-part cleanup on if not part.autoclose and not part.consumed: await part.close() (multipart.py:1191). BodyPartReaderPayload deliberately keeps the inherited _autoclose = False because it is a "streaming reader that may have resources" (multipart.py:634), so it is exactly the class that guard exists for.

Setting _consumed = True at the top of write() converts that always-run cleanup into a never-run one for every part that gets written. Nothing leaks today only because BodyPartReaderPayload inherits the no-op Payload.close() (payload.py:327-337) — I verified there is no override. But the class is explicitly marked as owning resources, so the moment someone gives it a real close(), this silently stops calling it.

Suggestion: track replayability separately from consumption — e.g. a _replayable = False flag that consumed consults — so the close-time guard keeps reflecting "were resources released" rather than "can this be replayed".

    async def write(self, writer: AbstractStreamWriter) -> None:
        field = self._value
        self._consumed = True
        while chunk := await field.read_chunk(size=DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE):

Checklist

  • Fix addresses the stated bug and is covered by tests that fail on master
  • Retried payload produces a Content-Length consistent with the resent body
  • No resource leaks or missed cleanup on the new error paths — suggestion #2
  • Error handling preserves the original exception on the retry path — suggestion #1
  • No unintended behavioral regressions for previously working inputs
  • New invariant enforced at the point of failure, not only by convention
  • No race conditions introduced between the aborted and retried write
  • Comments and class-level docs match the new invariants
  • PR description and changelog cover all behavioral changes in the diff
  • Maintainer change-requests addressed (news fragment and code comment trimmed)
  • No hardcoded secrets, injection, or unsafe deserialization
  • Tests verify observable behavior rather than inspecting source
ℹ️ Triage summary

6 pre-existing finding(s) on unchanged code suppressed (freeze).


Silent Failure Analysis

🟡 **MEDIUM** — unguarded await in exception handler masks original error
aiohttp/client.py:739-747

Risk: ClientRequest._close() awaits the writer task, which can carry an exception raised outside _write_bytes's try block (await writer.drain() / await self._continue on the expect-100 path); that exception escapes the handler, replaces the original ClientOSError/ServerDisconnectedError, and silently skips the retry that was just enabled.

except (ClientOSError, ServerDisconnectedError):
    ...
    if data is not None:
        await req._close()
        if req._body.consumed:
            raise

Fix: Wrap await req._close() in with suppress(Exception): (or catch and chain it onto the in-flight error) so writer-task fallout cannot displace the connection error or abort the retry.

🟡 **MEDIUM** — guard evaluated before the state it guards is computed
aiohttp/client.py:744-746

Risk: For IOBasePayload the _consumed flag is only set during the next write, inside _set_or_restore_start_position(), which swallows a failed seek() (except (OSError, AttributeError): self._consumed = True) and then keeps reading from the current mid-file offset — so this pre-write check passes, the retry proceeds, and a truncated body is sent under the original Content-Length with no error, exactly the failure mode this PR sets out to remove.

await req._close()
if req._body.consumed:
    raise
data = req._body

Fix: Make _set_or_restore_start_position() raise (or have write_with_length abort) when the seek-back fails instead of only flipping _consumed, so an unrewindable file can never stream a partial body.

🟡 **MEDIUM** — in-flight background work not actually awaited
aiohttp/client.py:740-743

Risk: IOBasePayload.write_with_length reads via loop.run_in_executor, and cancelling the writer task does not stop an already-running executor job, so _close() returning only proves the task settled — a stray self._value.read() can land after the retry's seek(_start_position) and silently skip bytes in the replayed body.

# ... reuse the payload, which rewinds itself once the
# cancelled writer has settled.
await req._close()

Fix: Have the payload track its outstanding executor future and await it (or re-seek immediately before each read) so a rewind cannot race a leftover read from the abandoned attempt.

🟡 **MEDIUM** — resource cleanup silently skipped
aiohttp/multipart.py:666-667

Risk: MultipartWriter.close() releases parts with if not part.autoclose and not part.consumed: await part.close(), so marking BodyPartReaderPayload (which opts into explicit closing via _autoclose = False) consumed up front means its close() is now never called after a write — harmless today only because the inherited close() is a no-op, but it quietly disables the cleanup hook the class declares it needs.

field = self._value
# Reading the part drains the underlying stream irreversibly...
self._consumed = True

Fix: Track replayability separately from closability (e.g. a _replayable flag consulted by consumed), or change MultipartWriter.close() to key off autoclose alone so consumed parts are still closed.

🟡 **MEDIUM** — abandoned retry indistinguishable from plain failure
aiohttp/client.py:744-745

Risk: Re-raising the bare connection error gives the caller no signal that the retry was abandoned because the body could not be replayed, whereas the redirect path 40 lines below raises an explicit ClientPayloadError with remediation advice for the identical condition.

if req._body.consumed:
    raise

Fix: Raise a ClientPayloadError (chained from the connection error) naming the unreplayable body, mirroring the redirect branch's message.


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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Both open inline items already applied in HEAD.
  • client.py:740-742 — comment now 3 lines, keeps only the two facts @aiolibsbot proposed (trimmed in 737a6066).
  • CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst — now 5 lines: sentence one + one behaviour-change line (trimmed in ef3a00de). Payload-reuse and multipart mechanism prose dropped.
  • Reviewer notes citing "14 comment lines" / "11-line fragment" describe pre-ef3a00de state.

Not changed (and why)

  • @bdraco "trim verbose prose" on client.py:754 — already done in commit 737a6066; comment is 3 lines / 4 code lines, matching the proposed version.
  • @bdraco "trim verbose prose" on CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst — already done in commit ef3a00de; fragment is sentence one plus one behaviour line, exactly the requested shape.
  • Automated HIGH _set_or_restore_start_position() swallows failed seek() — real but pre-existing upstream edge case (tell() succeeds, seek() later fails), and it equally affects the redirect path. Making it raise is a behaviour change beyond the two prose trims requested this round; belongs in its own PR.
  • Automated MEDIUM items (executor read race, BodyPartReaderPayload close hook, ClientPayloadError for abandoned retry) — advisory, addressed or deliberately deferred in earlier passes; no human reviewer asked for them.

Stats

8 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Actions performed
  • Already-solved check: negative (confidence=high, reasoning=master's _request retry path at aiohttp/client.py:736 still plainly continues without reusing or r)
  • Rebased koan/implement-13329 onto upstream/master
  • Review feedback evaluated; no changes required
  • Pre-push CI check: previous run #31125222993 failed
  • Pre-push CI fix: no changes needed or Claude found nothing to fix
  • Force-pushed koan/implement-13329 to origin
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Note

No code changes since the last review (ef3a00d) — skipping. Push new commits or re-request a review to run again.

Retrying a request after ClientOSError/ServerDisconnectedError rebuilt
the payload from the original `data`. For a file object the handle had
already been advanced by the aborted write, so the retry resent only the
unread remainder with a matching (short) Content-Length.

Reuse the payload from the failed attempt instead, as the redirect path
already does: IOBasePayload seeks back to the position it recorded before
the first attempt. Bodies that cannot be replayed are no longer retried;
the original connection error propagates rather than a silently truncated
body being sent.

AsyncIterablePayload now marks itself consumed as soon as it starts
draining an uncached iterator, so an interrupted write is correctly
reported as unreplayable instead of only after StopAsyncIteration.
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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/implement-13329 was rebased onto master and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Both trims already in HEAD. No changes needed.

Not changed (and why)

  • @bdraco "trim overly verbose prose" on aiohttp/client.py:754 — already applied. Comment now 3 lines (client.py:740-742) covering only the two retained facts: rebuilt payload resends unread remainder only, and rewind happens after the cancelled writer settles.
  • @bdraco "trim the overly verbose prose" on CHANGES/13329.bugfix.rst — already applied. Fragment now 5 lines: one sentence plus one behaviour-change line. Payload-reuse and multipart mechanism prose dropped, matching repo norm (1-4 line fragments).
  • @aiolibsbot follow-up notes citing "14 comment lines" and "11-line fragment" — describe pre-ef3a00de state; both superseded.

Stats

8 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Actions performed
  • Already-solved check: negative (confidence=high, reasoning=Master's _request still rebuilds from data on ClientOSError/ServerDisconnectedError with no )
  • Rebased koan/implement-13329 onto upstream/master
  • Review feedback evaluated; no changes required
  • Pre-push CI check: previous run #31125222993 failed
  • Pre-push CI fix: no changes needed or Claude found nothing to fix
  • Force-pushed koan/implement-13329 to origin
  • Private review gate skipped: disabled by config
  • CI check enqueued in ## CI (async)

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internally retried PUT requests can send incomplete data when a file handle in given as data

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